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I'm embarrassed that I even know this, but she used a standard pickup tactic[1,2], popularized by the book "the game". [1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin

• mindcrime 13y ago
  I can see the analogy, although I'm not convinced it holds up. But the flip-side is, and I think this is important to understand, a lot of the "techniques" used by PUAs aren't things they invented, but rather things they borrowed from material on salesmanship and persuasion. Robert Cialdini, for example, is heavily cited as an influence within the PUA community. So calling a "neg" a "pickup technique" might not even be accurate. I imagine the idea of "lower the value of a high-value target to penetrate their shield" probably predates the term PUA by quite some time.